James and Chuckie sit down with Mike Mason, Creative Director for Call of Cthulhu at Chaosium, co-author of the ENnie Award-winning 7th Edition Keeper Rulebook, Pulp Cthulhu, the Starter Set, Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, and over 40 other titles! If you've ever lost sanity at a table, this is the man who took it from you!

What We Get Into:

• The biggest crime in every roleplaying game
• What makes a good GM? What sets a Keeper apart from other kinds of GMs? Mike's answer will surprise you.
• Sandbox vs. linear! Mike doesn't care, as long as nobody's talking to the librarian at five to midnight, when the cultists are already at the hill…
• Pulling strings: how tension in a horror game works like a slow build, not a jump scare
• Comedy and horror: why Evil Dead works and why your players' guard needs to come down before the scary thing hits
• Genres! Sci-fi, Westerns, Deadlands, and a Savage Worlds crossover you might not know about...

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